The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-12
WOMAN AND HOME.
HOW A t6-YEAR-OLO GIRLS EYES
WERE OPENED.

The Right to Remain Sinsle-Tea and
CofTee-women's Clubs-Habit OF Com
notwithstanding woman-Mrs. Lang
try's Complexion-Hints and Helps.
AT 16 / could paint a rose or lily so like the
genuine flowers that they themselves might
have been deceived by my portrayals and
have taken them for their own pretty refiec-
tons in a stream or mirror. And IN music
had so mastered the intricacies even OF
Beethoven that played one of his sonatas all
through at a public recital But L never had
swept room in my life, and if any one had
asked me why eggs were used in cooking
might perhaps have been obtuse enough TO
answer, "For sweetening purposes. And
gloried in my ignorance, considering It
"bliss," until one day in summer, when my
eyes were opened wider than they ever were
before.
Ny parents had gone away for n day or
two taking the chambermaid with them, and
Immediately after their departure the cook
went to bed sick. | was not much disturbed,
however, a. there was plenty of cooked food
i'm the house. But about noon, when l was
practising the scales, and my fingers were
scampering like white mice from one end OF
the piano to the other, merry laugh inter
rupted my exertions, and turning my head,
all bristling with hairpins for evening beau
filters, | saw my cousin Charley and two
other youths from college. | always called
Charley my cousin, although the relationship
was "A little indistinct, his elder half sister
having married my uncle.
Jenny" lie said, we've come to dinner as
hungry as three bears"
oh daar.7 | gasped, there's one here
but me, and don't know how to get a din
ner. But there's cold meat and bread"
"Can't we have steak, Jenny" he in
quired, and baked potatoes and coffsef Well
all help"
"Well. >" rejoined, "come into the kitchen,
but you'll have to make "a fire first"
1--WE can do it," was the merry reply,
~Tom's the philosopher"
And you're the
mo impertinence," Charley retorted, "but
well soon have fire"
We did, and, getting the potatoes, was
putting them right into the oven when my
cousin asked in stage whisper, Jenny,
Jenny, amt you going to wash them first"
NV cheeks burned, and taking them to the
sink / gave them such a scrubbing as po-
tatoes never received before.
Charley" whispered, shall l wash the
steakF
"If You choose, DEAR" he answered, "but
wouldn't use soap. Now where's the ground
coffee.'
ulu not KNOW any more ABOUT IL tndil III
had lived in Jupiter or Venus, but the boys
nose led him right to the spot. and soon the
coffee was boiling and che steak broiiing in
an appetizing way. l placed the meat upon
a DISH and was intending to leave it thus in
1b auty unadorned," when one of my visitors
suggested timidly: Excuse me, but don't
you put little something ON it, Lard or
butter or something's
"Not lard" Charley interposed, "Great
Scott butter. salt and pepper, Jenny, are the
usual ingredients"
Blushing more furIously than ever, l ap-
piled the desired articles, and the dinner was
really very good We had "A merry time, but
when my cousin said good-by he added:
"You're dear, jolly girl, Jenny, but if
were you I'd learn how to cook. 1t would
look better, don't you known
Yes, | did know, and was not silly enough
to take oifense. / took the hint instead, and
so efTectually that three months afterwards,
when my adviser came to visit us, sent the
cook out of the kitchen and got the dinner
myself. unassisted, and Charley whispered
but no matter what he whispered. That was
several years ago. and now he sits opposite to
me at the table three times a day. GOOD
Housekeeping.